thewookie1

I'd do exactly what they did with Zadorov. Play him a few games and barring a spectacular performance send him back to Juniors with a bit of experience and a better understanding what skills he needs to improve.

He's Russian Maybe drafting him lights a fire under Grigs Where's that other Latvian supposed to go?

Hmm I wonder how many spots we could hop with the 39th and a 6th rounder 31. Barbashev 35? Demko 49. Lemieux if still there

They don't have the 10th, Anaheim held that one. Myers for 6th, 50th and Burrows?

What about 6 instead of 24?

Burrows is someone they supposedly want to dump. Myers + 2014 3rd for Burrows, 24th and 50th picks in 2014 + a 2nd in 2015

I'd be willing to work out a deal with Vancouver, even if he gets good he wouldn't haunt us 5-6 games a year

Supposedly Garrison + to TB for the 50th overall

Damn wanted Kesler in Chicago

I'd keep him unless wowed by a western team

Yes, I refuse to trade a former Calder trophy winner in division. Especially to a team known to bring the best out of their players.

That's mainly my fear.

I feel uncomfortable trading Myers in the division, I don't want to be haunted

Aah ok. I actually think Risto is better than Ekblad frankly. Zadorov is more of a toss up. Risto really impressed me after the whole minors stint not to mention the WJC game winner.

So far so good :)

I'd still trade Ekblad in the end, Risto is already a year ahead of Ekblad in development and Zadorov has already shown flashes of being great. Ekblad to me is lesser than either of those two so unless you can get a killing for Ruhwedal, Pysyk, or McCabe I'd just deal Ekblad to the highest bidder.

Hypothetical situation: This just in the Florida Panthers have traded the 1st overall pick to the Vancouver Canucks for blah blah blah. The Vancouver Canucks are happy to take from the Kootenay Ice, Sam Reinhart...... Buffalo is now on the clock and you are Tim Murray.... what do you do? Personally I walk over to Calgary's table and ask what they'd give me with the 4th overall to jump over their bitter rival Edmonton's 3rd pick to get Ekblad. Then sit down back at the Sabres table and wait for Edmonton to throw stuff at us. Like Eberle and the 3rd or Gagner, a 2nd rounder in 2015 and the 3rd overall. If they don't bite, trade the pick to Calgary. I'm unwilling to take Ekblad seeing as we already have a solid base of defensive prospects. But Edm and Cal would be pretty easy to play against one another

Sometimes one has to retreat when a position is untenable. Buffalo was stuck inside a ditch always being good enough to squeak in or just bad enough not too. We had a GM unwilling to see this problem thus a natural rebuild was impossible. We had to gut the team, and finding that many hockey trades would be ridiculous. Elite players never grace the trading market nowadays thus drafting them is the sole way to acquire them aside from Free Agency where Buffalo can't draw them for the life of them. What Murray did was a mercy kill to someone being eaten alive by zombies. The players aren't tanking, and the team is trying to become competitive through radical restructuring. I highly doubt TM goes in everyday telling the team to lose, he's going to help Buffalo hold the Cup rather than merely playing for it again

I thought I had put him down, guess the other M's distract me.

If both were interested we could hold up until the final seconds, take Ekblad and continue the discussion.

If Vancouver moves into 1 and takes Reinhart, I'd offer Ekblad to Calgary and Edmonton and let them get into a bidding war with one another.

I'd love to have Moulson back! Grab Ott too and we'll have gotten all the deadline trades' acquisitions for McCormick, Miller, and 2 2nd rounders + rent a beer/otter

Please name a few, I'm honestly curious who these players are.

Callahan..... :cry: Ott and Bolland could still be very helpful. :worthy:

We need to throw money at people to get to the floor and acquire vet leadership. And 4.5 in 4 years will probably be about right for a 3rd liner based on the cap inflation.